Re: where to install additional kernel modules?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:51:57 +0200, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> said:
> also sprach Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> [2003.08.25.1652
> +0200]:
>> If there is a single sane approach,
> Well, what's the single sane approach then? So far I've heard four,
> and they are all possible.
A) I said "if".
B)
> also sprach David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> [2003.08.25.0330 +0200]:
>> In reality, it doesn't matter what directory you put modules in,
>> since they all share the same namespace. You can't have two module
>> files called module_x.o and expect it to work. Users, however,
>> appreciate the separation.
So /lib/modules/$kvers/$package/ is as good as anything we
have seen. It is not as it any single machine is likely to have
hundreds of third party modules to so clutter up /lib/modules/$kvers/
that finer grained subdirs would be required.
manoj
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